From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #100 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, December 11 1997 Volume 03 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Latest [mbittner@juno.com] Re: Liz and Lisa tapes, anyone? [jesse hernandez liwag ] Re: Help with songwriter... Please! [Neal Copperman ] Re: Fields of the Nephilim (was "Re: this week's new releases") [Neal Cop] Re: Help with songwriter... Please! [Dan Stark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 04:50:14 -0600 From: mbittner@juno.com Subject: Latest I have been meaning to post for awhile, and finally have the time to. First of all, a few weeks ago I was to see Dee Carstensen. Well, she cancelled due to sickness. I was sorely bummed. I have picked up: Dar Williams, _Honesty Room_ - It's Dar. She is now one of my goddesses. Kate Price, _Deep Hearts Core_ - Pretty good. Granted, not Loreena, but good - and different enough - to make me seek the next release. Loreena McKennitt, _To Drive The Cold Winter Away_ - Since she's another of my goddesses, it's all great. This is the first time I have heard this, and I really like the way the "recording in a church" came out. It gives it a different "air". I thought that was funny reading about Milla Drumke stopping off in Elyria, Ohio, to have a bite to eat at Red Lobster. Elyria is where I was born and raised, which is a few miles south and west of Cleveland. Yes, Loreena is now on local radio, KIWR, "The River". They are playing "Mummer's Dance". So, it looks like she's being pushed hard onto radio - a fact I'm not sure is good, but I'm glad she's finally getting the attention she deserves. However, with Loreena using being around number one in the international market, it makes you wonder about the USofA. If I fail to post before hand, everyone on ecto be sure to have a wonderful Holiday season. Mine is going to be extra special this year, because my two year-old is old enough to know what it's all about :-) and be excited about it. Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:49:36 +0800 From: jesse hernandez liwag Subject: Re: Liz and Lisa tapes, anyone? At 01:55 AM 12/10/97 -0500, you wrote: >From: Rachel Kramer Bussel >Subject: Liz and Lisa tapes, anyone? > >I know that somewhere out there, someone has a tape of "Liz and Lisa", the >Brown University duo who have since gone on to become Lisa Loeb and Liz >Mitchell (of the awesome band Ida). If someone has this tape they used to >sell, and would like to tape it for me (pretty please...) please email me >and I'll send a blank tape/postage and some gift for your kindness.=20 Hey! Me too! Me too! I'd like a copy too or even just info on it. Is this an album or a bootleg? Jesse Liwag Metro Manila, Philippines =AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB= =BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB I feel the ghost of my heartbeat=20 echo within me 97120119=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB= =AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB=AB=BB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:58:02 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Holmes Subject: Fields of the Nephilim (was "Re: this week's new releases") meredith writes: > Hi! Hi to you too! ;-) > Not much of ecto interest this week (and *nothing* at all came out last > week, which is why I didn't send a notice last time) However, a few on the > list are good for factor, so enjoy! :> > > *Rock and Pop new releases* > --------------------------- > - BRYAN ADAMS - MTV Unplugged (A&M) > - AIR SUPPLY - Book of Love (Revolution) > - CY CURNIN - Mayfly (Thoughtscape Sounds) > - PIZZICATO FIVE - Contact (EP) (Matador) > - Various artists - CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF RABIES: POEMS AND TALES OF > EDGAR ALLEN POE (Mouth Almighty/ Mercury) > > *Rock and Pop reissues* > ----------------------- > - FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - Dawnrazor; Earth Inferno; Elysium and The > Nephilim (Beggars Banquet) So what does anyone thing of the FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - I was considering purchasing one of theirs sound unheard, but picked up Elysian Fields "Bleed Your Cedar" and Sarah's "B sides" and Lisa Germano's "Love Circus" instead... I guess I had to get *one* release which had some fields in it.... =8^) np: Elysian Fields: "Bleed Your Cedar" (just picked up this one for ~$7) nr: Evans-Wentz: "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" - - Richard. @ \@/ Richard A. Holmes (rholmes@cs.stanford.edu) @ | @ \|/ "O dark expansive sea of night, @ | Tapestry of stars and solitude, @ , , | , , Crashing waves of chaos, Deep void of becoming, @ ' ' ' ' ' Radiant blackness, all-enfolding, @ Constant well of creation, @ Bestow you dark gifts and silver sparks @ On your parched and thirsty child. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:55:43 -0500 From: Chris Sampson Subject: Help with songwriter... Please! Only a last resort because I didn't want to unnecessarily burden my on-line friends, here with something I should have been able to find on the WWW by myself... Anyway, here goes. For reasons that (will continue to) remain unclear, my co-workers and I found ourselves wondering: WHO IN THE HELL WROTE MACARTHUR PARK???!!! Please... the gray matter you save may be mine! Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:10:52 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Help with songwriter... Please! On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Chris Sampson wrote: > For reasons that (will continue to) remain unclear, my co-workers and I > found ourselves wondering: > > WHO IN THE HELL WROTE MACARTHUR PARK???!!! Wasn't that Jimmy Webb? I don't know why I know (or think I know) that. I seem to recall a big deal being made about it at the time, and I never did learn who the guy was, but that name is apparently forever stuck in my head. Neal np: Elizabeth Hummell - booted at the Ould Sod ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:15:19 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: Help with songwriter... Please! At 11:10 PM 12/10/97 -0500, Neal Copperman wrote: > > >On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Chris Sampson wrote: > >> For reasons that (will continue to) remain unclear, my co-workers and I >> found ourselves wondering: >> >> WHO IN THE HELL WROTE MACARTHUR PARK???!!! > >Wasn't that Jimmy Webb? I don't know why I know (or think I know) that. >I seem to recall a big deal being made about it at the time, and I never >did learn who the guy was, but that name is apparently forever stuck in my >head. McArthur Park is melting in the rain ... all the sweet green icing flowing down ... "all songs written, arranged and produced by Jimmy Webb" yes, I admit it. The vinyl Richard Harris album, "A Tramp Shining" - with "McArthur Park" - resides in my house, together with LPs including such other shining examples of early 70s songwriting exploring mind expansion as The First Edition's "Just Dropped In" and Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" ... (at 7:20, the radio stations themselves must have been on acid to give it airplay back then!!) Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------- Chicago, IL / USA | Support Independent Music! Use the Internet candre@enteract.com | Carolyn's House of Music: http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:40:27 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Fields of the Nephilim (was "Re: this week's new releases") On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Richard Holmes wrote: > > - FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - Dawnrazor; Earth Inferno; Elysium and The > > Nephilim (Beggars Banquet) > > So what does anyone thing of the FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - I was > considering purchasing one of theirs sound unheard, but picked up > Elysian Fields "Bleed Your Cedar" and Sarah's "B sides" and Lisa > Germano's "Love Circus" instead... I guess I had to get *one* > release which had some fields in it.... =8^) I'm always surprised when something I have on CD is re-released, since I think if I own it, it must be in print. I've had one Nephilim disc, Dawnrazor, for a long time, but probably haven't listened to it for years, so it's a bit hard for me to conjure up the music (and I don't much feel like listening to it). It's got deep gravelly mail vocals, with the singer somewhere in the middle of Joy Division and Skinny Puppy. The music is guitar heavy with a thudding beat, but had occasional weird western touchs thrown in too. That gave it a little bit of charm (but not all that much, really). It has a sort of cool apocolyptic western cover, which is what drew me to it in the first place. I'd recommend giving a listen first. Neal np: RIchard Shindell - Sparrow's Point ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:29:25 -0500 From: Dan Stark Subject: Re: Help with songwriter... Please! At 02:55 PM 12/10/97 -0500, Chris Sampson wrote: >Only a last resort because I didn't want to unnecessarily burden my >on-line friends, here with something I should have been able to find on >the WWW by myself.. > > WHO IN THE HELL WROTE MACARTHUR PARK???!!! It was WRITTEN (music and lyrics) by Jimmy Webb. Jimmy was a songwriter and producer who originally worked for Motown Records publishing division in the 1960s. At that time he wrote for The Fifth Dimension, and later went on to write and produce songs for Glen Campbell (Wichita Lineman & Galveston), Thelma Houston, Cher, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Frank Sinatra, Art Garfunkel, David Crosby and more. Webb has released some albums of his own, but none have been great commercial successes; he is best known for his songwriting. MacArthur Park was originally made a hit by Richard Harris in 1968, when it hit #2 on the Billboard charts. Harris had a follow-up hit called Didn't We, also written by Jimmy Webb. Donna Summer released a disco version of it in 1978, and it hit #1. The Four Tops also covered the song but it was not a hit single. Did you win the bet? :) Dan - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All spam email sent to this address will automatically be forwarded to I.R.S. and USPIS fraud investigation, FTC fraud and pyramid investigators, Securities & Exchange Commission, and many more. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #100 **************************